Glaucidium palmatum

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Lifespan: perennial, annual
Bloom: early spring, mid spring, late spring
Cultivation
Exposure: part-sun, shade
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 6 to 9
Flower features: blue, purple
Scientific Names

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Glaucidium is a genus of plants in family Ranunculaceae, comprising a single species Glaucidium palmatum (Japanese Wood Poppy; Shirane-aoi). It is endemic to northern and eastern Japan on Hokkaidō and northeastern Honshū on mountains close to the Sea of Japan.[1][2]

It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant growing to 40 cm tall with a rigid stem with two large (20 cm diameter) palmately lobed leaves at the top and small membraneous leaves lower on the stem. The flower is produced singly at the top of the stem, 8 cm diameter, with four pink to pale purple (rarely white) petaloid sepals, numerous stamens and two carpels. The fruit is a cluster of follicles.[3]

It is sometimes placed in its own family Glaucidiaceae, or in the family Paeoniaceae.[2]

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References

  1. Shiro Tsuyuzaki, Hokkaido University: Japanese Wood Poppy
  2. 2.0 2.1 Germplasm Resources Information Network: Glaucidium
  3. Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.

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